Music News

Every two weeks, the Kids Around the Bay column profiles one of the local school music programs, to provide parents with a sense of the resources and philosophy offered, as well as how programs compare. This week we spoke with composer and jazz pianist Eddie Mendenhall, music director with the Stevenson School on the Monterey Peninsula.

In the ongoing story about arrests for the

Composers, Inc. had a long run in San Francisco, but it is leaving the city. A concert on April 9, in Old First Church, will be the group's last event here.

Looking forward to Monday night's "Behind the Curtain: Planning an Opera Season" presentation by San Francisco Opera's Director of Music Administration Kip Cranna and Associate Director of Production Jennifer Good, I was disappointed when other work (look around SFCV this week) piled up and ma

Lack of regional cooperation or outright collaboration has been a decades-long hobby horse of mine: I never understood why meager resources are not being pooled.

Maurice Ravel, composer of the Bolero, and many other less famous but more wonderful musical works, wears the birthday hat this week.

Although you'll often hear him lumped with Debussy as an "impressionist," few composers were less fuzzy and more definite than Ravel. "I tore my work out of me, drop by drop," goes the most famous quotation from this musician.